Section 13, Pages 461 -502 Summary

Bella sits at the conference, careful to maintain a neutral appearance lest the rest see the revulsion on her face. It takes considerable effort. Production of the entire plant will cost the same as a single Harrier jet, and to make enough Cyndex to guarantee the safety of the country for an entire year will cost the equivalent of fifty air to air missiles. That anyone can joke about the horrific details is beyond her. As no human testing had ever been done, questions are raised as to how symptoms can be so accurately projected, but a scientist assures them that testing on Chimpanzees was done and extrapolated. When the suggestion is made that in Africa they have an inexhaustible supply of Chacma baboons indigenous to the area, Bella's outburst is immediate. Garry breaks in to silence Bella's outburst...